PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 9, 2023

They are both well aware of the irony of two engineers developing a parody engineering game, but that hasn’t stopped Cillín Farrell and Neil Mackenzie from devoting the majority of their spare time doing just that. With the game’s 100% physics-based building system, players can solve each mission in infinite ways.

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Ask a Game Dev

APRIL 16, 2025

New studios do start up, but entry level positions are rare since most of the new studios are looking for funding and they need the core senior dev team to build enough of a prototype to sell the idea to the money people. The first approach is to get a game dev adjacent job.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 4, 2024

With over 2000 pitches flooding their inbox every year, Kepler Interactive is no stranger to reviewing a deluge of game ideas. During his talk at the Dutch Game Day , Handrahan shares some interesting insights. While the game must, of course, be well-made, technical precision alone doesn’t guarantee a contract.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 29, 2024

It’s a functioning version of all planned game systems in the game working together for a representative final game experience. Prototype - A playable example of a single gameplay system to prove out the concept. Prototype - A playable example of a single gameplay system to prove out the concept.

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iXie gaming

AUGUST 8, 2023

In game development, one of the most essential aspects is prototyping. In today’s world, game development is an art, and quite inarguably, it is one of the most complex and intricate art forms. In this article, you’ll learn some significant and exciting things about the development of game prototypes.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

This is because a given project is at its maximum headcount right before it ships - you need all hands on deck during full production, building and validating all of the content in the game. There needs to be other projects in development to pay for those people after the game launches.

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Ask a Game Dev

JANUARY 24, 2025

Yes, most games that dont pass muster get cancelled, and publishers cancel them as early as they can. Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches. Really early on, you only have one to five senior devs working on building a prototype for the approved pitches.

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Brand Game Development

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. This week, I posted A Crash Course on Selling Board Games , which is my way of helping demystify that which terrifies many first-time game developers. Need help on your board game? Click here.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. With that in mind, I want to help you come up with some New Year’s Resolutions of your own, ones specifically related to board game design. Create your first board game. Card games count, too!

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PreMortem.Games

APRIL 3, 2024

Although she enjoyed her time in Turkey and her engineering studies, she decided to leave both behind to pursue her passion for game development. Today she works at Maliyo Games, based in Lagos, Nigeria. I enjoyed the thrill of playing games with friends and family. I still regularly engage in many outdoor games and board games.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

After delivering two of the most highly rated VR adventures with Moss Book One and Book Two, Polyarc now tries its hand at a competitive multiplayer VR game with GlassBreakers: Champions of Moss. He explains: “Interestingly enough, when the studio was founded, there were two prototypes that were built.

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Grumpy Gamer

JULY 8, 2011

The vertical slice is one of the dumbest things the game industry has ever come up with. It's just a dumb way to build a game and it results in wasted time and money and doesn't produce the best game possible. Maybe writing a novel works this way, but making movies and games do not. They are an iterative processes.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 14, 2018

It's interesting to build an RPG (using the term very loosely) where you have the option to play the entire game with no combat and it's still fun. A passive player won't see the same game as a combative one, but won't feel like they are missing anything. Undertale did this but in a subversive way. Simple, but also really good.

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PreMortem.Games

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Studio owner and Lead Developer Max Hermann originally developed the idea for the game in the time when he was still a computer science student and active in the RimWorld modding scene. That’s when I formed the idea of building a new colony sim from the ground up, centered around the idea of exploration and travel.

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Ask a Game Dev

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Live services exist for single player game - any game with regular content updates and patching is a live service. Those content updates and patches are the "service" part - we have to build them, they go live and get pushed out to the public. I think you've misunderstood the "single player vs live service" thing.

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Grumpy Gamer

JULY 7, 2011

The vertical slice is one of the dumbest things the game industry has ever come up with. It’s just a dumb way to build a game and it results in wasted time and money and doesn’t produce the best game possible. Maybe writing a novel works this way, but making movies and games do not.

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Grumpy Gamer

MARCH 13, 2018

It’s interesting to build an RPG (using the term very loosely) where you have the option to play the entire game with no combat and it’s still fun. A passive player won’t see the same game as a combative one, but won’t feel like they are missing anything. Undertale did this but in a subversive way.

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Brand Game Development

JUNE 11, 2018

Board game conventions have a certain mystique to them. As such, board game developers often find their own interest in conventions piqued. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. We’re giving away a copy on the Pangea Games Facebook.

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Indie DB

OCTOBER 14, 2023

I created a small prototype to a game core, which allows to create dynamic RPGs similar to YRPG Builder and that without programming knowledge (or here blueprint building knowledge).

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Brand Game Development

MARCH 2, 2020

Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. I’d like to explain to you exactly how to create a demo of your board game on Tabletop Simulator, but first let’s discuss what I perceive as its five main benefits: 1. It’s pretty straightforward.

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PreMortem.Games

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Around the same time, he delved into the world of video games, playing titles like GTA, Scarface, Ratchet & Clank, God of War, Call of Duty, and FIFA. He navigated the challenges of running a tech company, pitching to investors, collaborating with artists, and building the platform. One of the stories I wrote was a game.

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GamesIndustry.biz

APRIL 23, 2024

While the checkbooks are back out, there is a sneaky shift that's been occurring over the past few years: The burden of proof that an audience exists for a game is falling more and more on the shoulders of the developer. This was very much echoed in the investor update article posted on this site prior to GDC.

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AWS Games

MARCH 6, 2024

With the annual Game Developer Conference (GDC) just days away, Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Games is ramping up to host exciting technology demonstrations and programming focused on evolving industry trends, including generative artificial intelligence (AI). Be sure to RSVP here if you plan to attend.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

A community manager and new game designer. A game filled with cute armoured babies on a brave mission to save their daycare from a goblin invasion. Now, she’s navigating the world of game development, where each day brings new challenges and exciting discoveries. One of those games was Street Fighter.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

For some, the idea of developing a game alone is daunting. Sadly, the reality of the business showed me that the type of games that pay the rent weren’t the type of experiences I wanted to create”, he says. After a five-year hiatus from game development, he returned as a solo developer to create his debut game Repunk.

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Game Daily

MAY 19, 2023

Instead, I want to explore the role of a gaming CMO in setting teams up for success and the risk that some leaders may actually be incentivising a race to the bottom. Gaming UA teams are primarily, if not entirely, focused on optimization. Let’s look at these common pain points in more depth.

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Grumpy Gamer

JULY 13, 2014

The gaming and internet institution known as the Grumpy Gamer Blog has been around for just over ten years. But the honest truth is… I’ve been in this creative funk since Scurvy Scallywags Android shipped and I find myself meandering from quick prototype to quick prototype. Time flies. Two thousand and four.

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Game Analytics

JANUARY 3, 2023

Building video games has never been a simple task. You can have a brilliant idea for a game, but without the right skills, tools and resources, it can be near-impossible to tackle by yourself. So to get his advice and learn his secrets, we sat down to hear his story and journey as a solo-game developer.

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Ask a Game Dev

MARCH 10, 2025

They use proprietary tools to build content. They are a live service game. This is likely a scripter who can help be the glue that gets prototype and placeholder gameplay elements up and running. They need systems-driven gameplay. If you look at enough of these, you start seeing the similarities in what they are looking for.

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Brand Game Development

MAY 1, 2017

One of the most jarring experiences for new game developers is the process of getting their game reviewed. Drama aside, it truly is difficult at first because you have to identify reviewers, send prototypes, make sure your game is ready enough, cross your fingers, and hope they like it. Need help on your board game?

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PreMortem.Games

JULY 12, 2023

is one of the most striking indie games coming out this summer. The developers of Fireplace Games made an early prototype of the game while still in school, but are now well on their way to release it as a full-fledged game. But while everyone was working at larger studios or freelance, the En Garde!

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Mnenad

JULY 8, 2018

Prototype is ready! But I can now proudly announce that a playable prototype for the video game GenoTerra is finished (and I graduated with the Master in Design *yay*). As you might know, and I repeatedly keep saying, this game forms the practical part of my Master thesis. Master in Integrative Design.

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Brand Game Development

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifteenth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Commissioning art can be one of the most daunting parts of the game development process. Parting Advice.

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Brand Game Development

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. When I heard about this, I said to myself sardonically “sounds like game development.” Need help on your board game? Yet every time you make a new tweak, you’ll have to iterate the game.

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Brand Game Development

JANUARY 2, 2018

Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the ninth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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PreMortem.Games

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The game immerses players in a captivating odyssey across worlds within worlds, beckoning them to master the art of world-leaping mechanics to uncover a cosmic mystery. At Geometric we put gameplay first, and we will always build our games around strong gameplay ideas”, says Carlsen. years of development.

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PreMortem.Games

MARCH 20, 2024

Solo dev Tuomas Auronen , operating under the name Redbeak Games , looks pretty relieved three days after the launch of his game Mortal Glory 2. When his last game, that he spent 17 months working on, flopped, Auronen felt the pressure to make enough money to support his family. Especially since he recently became a father.

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